LADDE To The Moon Remembering Gordon Fullerton On This Week@NASA.

NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA. When it began operations on October 1, 1958

LIST OF NASA MISSIONS
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1.creation
2 Space flight programs
2.1 Manned programs
2.1.1 X-15 rocket plane (1959--68)
2.1.2 Project Mercury (1959--63)
2.1.3 Project Gemini (1961--66)
2.1.4 Project Apollo (1961--72)
2.1.5 Skylab (1965--79)
2.1.6 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1972-75)
2.1.7 Space Shuttle program (1972--2011)
2.1.8 International Space Station (1993--present)
2.1.8.1 Commercial Resupply Services (2006-present)
2.1.8.2 Commercial Crew Program (2010--present)
2.1.9 Beyond Low Earth Orbit program (2010--present)
2.2 Unmanned programs
2.3 Recent and planned activities
3 Scientific research
3.1 Medicine in space
3.2 Ozone depletion
3.3 Salt evaporation and energy management
3.4 Earth Science
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NASA prepares for the launch of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or LADEE probe to the moon.

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Next generation medical bionics: Professor Gordon Wallace at TEDxUWollongong

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Professor Gordon Wallace, Director and Founder of the University of Wollongong's Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and Executive Research Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science speaks at TEDxUWollongong 2012. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of nanobionics, a field that has already produced the Bionic Ear and in the future, has the potential to drastically change the capabilities of modern medicine.
His team have recently had a breakthrough with the development of an inkjet printer that assists nerve cell generation, which has the potential to repair damaged spinal cords and heal hearing damage.

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